Working-class in academe
When the Minnesota Review changed editors a few years ago, the old back issues disappeared from their website. Fortunately, one of my favorite essays, Diane Kendig‘s “Now I Work In…
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The Uninvited Invitados
Soon after Jeffrey Cohen and his wife, Maria, arrived in Oaxaca, Mexico, they were invited to a wedding. This experience, over two decades ago, ushered in their fieldwork…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, June 10 Edition
Hello FoodAnthro readers. If you have articles you’d like to share in future round-ups, please send the link and a brief description to LaurenRMoore@uky.edu. Thanks to the readers…
Cultural constructions of illness
“The Diseases You Only Get if You Believe in Them” (2016, The Atlantic) looks at certain forms of illness that are culturally specific. In this piece, Julie Beck…
Notes From the Field: Is this Skyrim?
Anthropologists go through some unique experiences as they conduct fieldwork. From experimenting with drugs to seeing people who have been dead for decades during a ceremony (read about…
Sadeq Rahimi’s Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity: A Study of Schizophrenia in Turkey by Ayşecan Terzioğlu
Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity: A Study of Schizophrenia in Turkey By Sadeq Rahimi Routledge, 2015, 248 pages This book is issued by “The International Society for Psychological…
Links & Contents I Liked 186
Hi all, Greetings from Berlin! While catching up with friends I am finalizing this week’s link review.Development news: Global aid spending is a mess; an overview over adaptive…
AAA Boycott Vote Postmortem
By now you have probably heard that the boycott vote failed by an incredibly narrow margin: In the end an astounding 51% of its 10,000 members participated. The…
Food Anthropology, A Tribute to Sidney W. Mintz
What are your essential articles for teaching a Food Anthropology course? What most distinguishes Food Anthropology from other ways of studying food? What are the most important insights…
Christine Wilson Award, July 1 Deadline!
REMINDER! Christine Wilson Award This is an exciting award for outstanding student research examining topics in nutrition, food studies and anthropology. Exemplary graduate and undergraduate papers ar…
Inequality and “the Global Question”
To mark the publication of Global Inequality, the first book in UTP’s new Anthropological Insights series, author Kenneth McGill explains the process of writing a book about inequality…
A New Home for Ethnography: The Use and Legacy of Ethnography by Anthropologists and Non-Anthropologists
Rhiannon and I are currently completing an article that looks at ethnography at this moment in time. One thread in this discussion is the way in which ethnography…
New Discovery Expands the Hobbit Family Tree
Recently found fossil remains that are 700,000 years old provide new insights about the extinct species Homo floresiensis, which was originally discovered in 2003. Researchers have attributed the…
Anthro in the news 6/6/16
Muhammad Ali, The Greatest: Boxer and social activist Muhammad Ali in 1966. Source: Wikimedia Commons Newsday reported on the death of Muhammad Ali. It quoted cultural anthropologist Orin Starn…
American Anthropological Association Votes Against Resolution to Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions
Elizabeth Redden reported today about the American Anthropological Association’s close vote against a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. She writes:A total of 2,423 AAA members voted …
Lao Camp Food (Part 2)
This is the second installment of a food journal I kept during several days in February camping with a bomb clearance team in Laos. If you missed my…
Where Has SARS Gone? The Strange Case of the Disappearing Coronavirus by Robert Peckham
The emergence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in China’s Guangdong Province in the winter of 2002 was an exemplary spillover event: it marked the passage of a…
A Little Social Science Cheerleading
In case anyone anywhere is looking for reasons why social scientists are needed in a societal sense or are arguing for the value of their degree, check out…
Teaching AAA 2016: Indexes and Icons
TEACHING THE 2016 AAA ANNUAL MEETING THEME: EVIDENCE, ACCIDENT, DISCOVERY Have you considered linking your teaching with the 2016 Annual Meeting theme, Evidence, Accident, Discovery? This new blog…
A Decolonial Turn in Anthropology? A View from the Pacific
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By: Lisa Uperesa Over the past two decades, non-White and non-Western scholars have posed serious challenges…